Environment

WT24 Desk The shallow seas around Britain absorb tens of million of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, scientists have discovered. This plays a critical role in stabilising the country’s ecology and in lessening the impact of ...

WT24 Desk Researchers have discovered mountain ranges and three huge, deep subglacial valleys hidden beneath the Antarctica ice, PTI reports. The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, are the first to emerge from extensive ice penetrating radar data ...

WT24 Desk Air pollution is the “new tobacco”, the head of the World Health Organization has warned, saying the simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, The Guardian reports. Over 90% of the world’s ...

WT24 Desk Water levels in 23 river stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rises and 62 stations recorded falls, BSS reports. Among the 94 monitored water level stations, eight are steady, a bulletin issued by ...

WT24 Desk Major problems in the plastic recycling industry are costing local councils in England up to £500,000 extra a year, as they struggle to deal with the continuing fallout from import bans imposed by countries who are no longer ...

WT24 Desk The plastics recycling industry is facing an investigation into suspected widespread abuse and fraud within the export system amid warnings the world is about to close the door on UK packaging waste, the Guardian has learned. The Environment Agency (EA) ...

WT24 Desk NEW DELHI– The death toll from severe cyclone Titli in India’s eastern state of Odisha has risen to 57, local government officials said Thursday, BSS reports. The cyclone inflicted an estimated loss of 300 million U.S. dollars, a ...

WT24 Desk A deadly drought in Afghanistan is causing a humanitarian crisis that has displaced more people this year than the war between the government and the Taliban. The BBC’s Secunder Kermani reports from Herat. Shadi Mohammed, 70, wells up ...